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Juncker to give female commissioners better posts

If female commissioners are "significantly fewer than men" in the new EU commission, its chief, Jean-Claude Juncker, has promised to "compensate" this by handing them important portfolios. "Female commissioners will then surely have very good chances for an important portfolio or for one of my deputy posts," Juncker told Kurier.

Central European countries say they have "nothing to hide" on rule of law issues - while justice commissioner Vera Jourova said they should agree to the Commission's controversial budget plans on rule of law conditionality.

Giovanni Buttarelli, the European data protection supervisor, says the EU-US data sharing pact known as Privacy Shield will play an increasingly minor role given the general data protection regulation.